Billing/RCM

COVID-19 Telehealth & Regulatory Changes For RHCs Major telehealth restrictions lifted New telehealth billing codes introduced New telehealth Evaluation & Mangement codes introduced  Major Telehealth Restrictions Lifted  On 3/25/2020, the United States Senate passed a deal on Phase 3 of the COVID-19 legislation that greatly expanded Medicare telehealth services to RHCs. Before the Coronavirus pandemic, […]

A swing bed is a physical hospital bed that can be used for two purposes – acute and post-acute care.

The purpose is to allow patients in rural communities to receive quality post-acute care within their community. Prior to Medicare’s swing bed program, hospitals were only permitted to provide acute care often leaving discharged patients and families with no local options for needed skilled nursing care.